UP.PT - Faculty of Sciences

Bioinformatics is a discipline at the interface of the ongoing revolutions in biology and computer science. It aims to analyse and understand biological and biomedical data, particularly at the cellular and molecular level. It involves the development and application of algorithms and computational tools, namely artificial intelligence and machine learning, to organise, analyse and extract relevant information from large sets of biological data, contributing to advances in areas such as genomics and other omics, genetics, systems biology, pathology, ecology, evolution, epidemiology, among others.